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Research article
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11 Jan 2022
Research article |
| 11 Jan 2022
| 11 Jan 2022
Intensified paraglacial slope failures due to accelerating downwasting of a temperate glacier in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau
Yan Zhong
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
Matthew Westoby
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Engineering and
Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
Francesca Pellicciotti
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL,
8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Bo Zhang
Department of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Geosciences
and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu
611756, China
Jialun Cai
Department of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Geosciences
and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu
611756, China
Guoxiang Liu
Department of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Faculty of Geosciences
and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu
611756, China
Haijun Liao
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Xuyang Lu
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology for Glaciology Research in the Third Pole C. Zhao et al.
- Multidecadal Changes in the Flow Velocity and Mass Balance of the Hailuogou Glacier in Mount Gongga, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau J. Gu et al.
- Recent (2018–2021) glaciological, hydrological and geomorphological landscape changes of Hailuogou Glacier tongue, southeastern Tibetan Plateau S. Xu et al.
- Rapid dynamics of paraglacial vegetation under temperate deglaciating environments in Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau J. Yang et al.
- Determinants of microbial community structure in supraglacial pool sediments of monsoonal Tibetan Plateau H. Fair et al.
- From Barren Rock to Thriving Life: How Nitrogen Fuels Microbial Carbon Fixation in Deglaciated Landscapes Y. Wang et al.
- Proglacial lake evolution coincident with glacier dynamics in the frontal zone of Kvíárjökull, South‐East Iceland J. Kavan et al.
- Progressive Shrinkage of the Alpine Periglacial Weathering Zone and Its Escalating Disaster Risks in the Gongga Mountains over the Past Four Decades Q. Zhang et al.
- Catastrophic multi-phase mass flow from temperate glacier catchments in Southeast Tibetan Plateau X. Lu et al.
- Thinning and surface mass balance patterns of two neighbouring debris-covered glaciers in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau C. Zhao et al.
- Long-term monitoring (1953–2019) of geomorphologically active sections of Little Ice Age lateral moraines in the context of changing meteorological conditions M. Altmann et al.
- The Stability Analysis of Mt. Gongga Glaciers Affected by the 2022 Luding MS 6.8 Earthquake Based on LuTan-1 and Sentinel-1 Data H. Li et al.
- Interdecadal glacier inventories in the Karakoram since the 1990s F. Xie et al.
- Stability of the Hailuogou glacier during the “9.5” Luding Earthquake: a preliminary assessment based on multi-source observations Q. Liu et al.
- Before the winter came: The Early Pleistocene pre-glacial history of the Baltics illuminated by facies analysis and cosmogenic nuclide dating of borehole cores from Lithuania (NE Europe) M. Šujan et al.
- Shear mechanical properties of ice-filled rock joints under low-temperature and freeze-thaw cycles S. Huang et al.
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Short summary
Slope failures exist in many paraglacial regions and are the main manifestation of the interaction between debris-covered glaciers and slopes. We mapped paraglacial slope failures (PSFs) along the Hailuogou Glacier (HLG), Mt. Gongga, southeastern Tibetan Plateau. We argue that the formation, evolution, and current status of these typical PSFs are generally related to glacier history and paraglacial geomorphological adjustments, and influenced by the fluctuation of climate conditions.
Slope failures exist in many paraglacial regions and are the main manifestation of the...
